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Key eventsMatch reportAlgeria ⁠fought back from a goal down to beat Jordan ⁠2-1, ​keeping alive their hopes of reaching the World Cup ⁠knockout rounds and condemning their opponents to an early ⁠exit in Group J.After a long ​and frustrating ‌struggle to crack ‌open a resolute Jordanian defence, ‌Algeria turned the game around with two goals in the space of 13 second-half minutes from Nadhir Benbouali and Amine Gouiri.ShareYoung Algeria attacker Ibrahim Maza was especially bright in the second half and a key to turning the game around after Jordan took a lead into the break. The 20-year-old is all smiles…

Diane Warren paid tribute to music executive Clive Davis following news of his death on Monday at his home in New York City at the age of 94. The prolific songwriter, who has nine Number One songs and 33 Top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, mourned his passing and credited Davis for her success in the music industry, thanking the music mogul for always championing her work. “Dear Clive, losing You today feels like losing my father,” Warren began in her heartfelt remembrance shared to social media. “Because you were always family to me. It was my Dad…

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is expected to announce the Class 10 Second Board Examination Result 2026 by the end of June. This year marked the first time the board conducted a second examination opportunity for Class 10 students. Once the results are released, students will be able to access their scorecards through the official CBSE website at cbse.gov.in.  After downloading the result, students should carefully review all the information mentioned on the marksheet, including their name, roll number, date of birth, subject details and marks obtained. Any errors or discrepancies should be reported to the school or…

Presidency: Your Call Childish, Misplaced, Undemocratic • British PM quits, Andy Burnham favoured to step in Emmanuel Addeh, Chuks Okocha and Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Former Governor of Anambra state and Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate in the 2027 election,  Peter Obi, yesterday urged President Bola Tinubu to take a cue from British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, and step down from office, arguing that the current administration has failed to meet Nigerians’ expectations amid worsening economic and social conditions. But the Presidency swiftly dismissed Obi’s remarks, describing the call for Tinubu’s resignation as childish, misplaced and undemocratic, insisting that…

Ten years ago this week, I woke up in southeast London to learn that Britain had voted for Brexit. I remember my oldest daughter, who was then 7, asking what Brexit was. I said Britain would be leaving Europe. She was baffled. “Where do they want to go?” she asked. “Africa?”Thus began a period of political tumult that hasn’t let up since. Yesterday, the sixth post-Brexit prime minister resigned. Keir Starmer, who won a landslide election less than two years ago, lost the trust of voters and many officials in his own party.The man poised to take over is charismatic,…

The naira strengthened marginally across foreign exchange (FX) market segments on Monday as Nigeria’s external reserves exceeded the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) year-end target of $51.04 billion. Data published by the CBN showed that the naira appreciated by N1.35 in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM), with the dollar quoted at N1,369.11 on Monday compared to N1,370.46 on Friday. Activity in the interbank FX market improved significantly. The number of deals executed rose by 59.32 percent to 94 on Monday from 59 recorded on Friday. Interbank turnover also increased by 63.47 percent to $65.21 million, reflecting stronger market activity…

OpenAI announced a new initiative on Monday designed to help the open source community improve its cybersecurity game and ward off bugs. “Patch the Planet,” (which is a not-so-subtle allusion to “Hack the Planet,” the iconic catch phrase from the 1995 movie Hackers) will see OpenAI team up with the security company Trail of Bits to help open source maintainers secure their projects. OpenAI said security staff from Trail of Bits will work directly with open source maintainers to review potential code issues. OpenAI’s security tools — like Codex Security — will be used to assist in the process. “Many maintainers…

Today’s puzzles – and prize draw! – are about different types of deception.1. Super syllabusA school cohort has two classes. At the end of the year 1, all pupils are graded. When all the pupils are listed in grade order, the median pupil is a C.(The median is the middle value in a data set listed from smallest to largest.)For year 2, the school introduces a new syllabus. At the end of the year, all pupils are again graded. Now when the pupils are listed in grade order, the median has dropped to a D.Devise a scenario in which the…

Lionel Messi added two more records to his remarkable World Cup career on Monday in Argentina’s second group game against Austria. The former Barcelona star first set one unwanted mark before quickly achieving another that further cemented his place among football’s greatest players. The Argentina captain first became the player with the most missed penalties in FIFA World Cup history after failing to convert from the spot during Argentina’s latest outing at the 2026 tournament. The miss was Messi’s third unsuccessful penalty at the World Cup, moving him ahead of several players who had previously shared the record. However, the…

The rolling idyll of heath and forest, spinney and stream that gave us the Heffalump, the Woozle and, most famously of all, Winnie-the-Pooh, has a new fantastical resident. Creeping through the bracken, making strange cooing and purring noises, is a shapeshifting creature with a huge tubular nose and eyes inspired by adders. It shimmies with iridescent patches and the psychedelic purple of flowering heather in high summer.Poppet, a puppet made by costume designer Jack Irving and brought to life by a team of 10 award-winning puppeteers, is performing for schoolchildren in Ashdown Forest, East Sussex. The primary school class squeal…